' Harold sakata who played oddjob in 'Goldfinger' remembered' — moviepilot.com ' Harold sakata who played oddjob in 'Goldfinger' remembered' July 01, 2015 at 05:19PM By Baldwin Collins , writer at Creators.co writer/author/businessman Many james bond fans like myself, remember the late Harold sakata born on this day. Toshiycki Harold sakata born july 1, 1920 was an american olympic weight lifter , professional wrestler, and film/tv actor. a silver medal winner for the united states at the 1948 summer olympic games in london, England long before being discovered by the bond producers. Was born in Holualoa, Hawaii of japanese descent.

popularly remembered the world over as character oddjob bodyguard and Henchman to bond Villain Auric Goldfinger in 'Goldfinger ' (1964) The scene from the movie, which bond fans consider a master piece in film making, is the Bowler hat, a iconic weapon with it's steel-brim, used to decapitate the statue at stoke poges Golf club and also killing tilly masterson played by ( Tania mallet) Sakata had appeared in many t v shows and films plus t v commercial's parody in parody style, he died in his hometown and country Hawaii july 29, 1982. The late harold sakata remembered R.I.P Trending from our Creators Goldfinger Goldfinger Vï¿½RLDS PREMIï¿½R: 17 September 1964 framfï¿½rd av Shirley Bassey INSPELAD: Goldfinger Mission Agent 007 investigates a smuggling operation run by the obsessive millionaire Auric Goldfinger and uncovers a plot to irradiate the entire gold supply of the United States by detonating an atomic bomb inside Fort Knox.

Summary: Special agent 007 has just come face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time. And now he'll have to outwit and outgun this powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox - and obliterate the world's economy! Review: Over the years, Goldfinger has become known as the gold standard (sorry, couldnï¿½t resist) for Bond movies: so much so that the ï¿½Bond formulaï¿½ is essentially based around this movie. It all started with the pretitle sequence, which was a mini-movie in itself. Bond quickly disrobes his wetsuit to reveal a perfectly-pressed white tuxedo underneath, quickly establishing his as a debonair and suave secret agent. He even gets his first pun in before the title sequence with ï¿½shocking, positively shocking.ï¿½ The quintessential Bond movie, of course, had the quintessential Bond theme, as Shirley Bassey belts out what is, arguably, the most recognizable theme song in the entire series: except of course for the Bond tune itselfï¿½but that doesnï¿½t count.

As the movie continues, Bond continues to be on his A-game both in terms of the ladies (he hooks up with Dink and Jill before he even leaves the Miami hotel) and in regards to action. Also introduced early on, through the striking visual of his shadow against the wall, is Oddjob: yet another icon in the Bond movie canon. Without saying a word, Oddjob is both menacing and evil; he could send a shiver down the spine with a mere look. That said, his apparent invincibility to everything except raw electricity was a bit absurd and takes away from his character. For example, thereï¿½s no way Bond could punch his face with a solid gold bar and not have Oddjob feel a thing. Moving along the villain arena we come to he of ï¿½No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!ï¿½ fame: Auric Goldfinger. Due partly to the aforementioned line as well as his voice (even though it was dubbed) and his plot to detonate a nuclear device inside Fort Knox, Goldfinger is one of the most memorable villains of the series. Ken Adams also helped the cause by doing a brilliant job with the sets: especially those related to Auric.

His den with rotating pool table and metal window shades truly accentuated Goldfingerï¿½s villainy. Bad guys aside, Goldfinger features Pussy Galore, the woman with the most sexual name of the entire series. In addition, she was the first of the ï¿½bad girlsï¿½ who would sleep with Bond and all of a sudden convert to the side of good. Heck, according to Ian Flemingï¿½s original source material, Bond even made her turn straight. The movie also featured Jill Masterson laying naked, dead and covered with gold paint: an image so iconic that it landed her on the cover of Life magazine. The movie also gave us our first look at Q's laboratory with the gags in the background as well as his gadgets for Bond. The crowning glory of Q's lab was the introduction of the Aston Martin DB5 which has become synonymous with Bond. Finally, Connery has achieved the perfect Bond character and along with a great script, supporting cast, and score, he made the best performance of his Bond career.

Date of Release World Premiere 17th September 1964, Odeon Leicester Square, London Running Time Bonita ï¿½ the night-club dancer (Nadja Regin) Dink (Margaret Nolan) ï¿½Mï¿½ (Bernard Lee) Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Aston Martin DB5 Bondï¿½s Gadgets Aston Martin DB5 with accessories: bullet-proof windscreen, smoke screen, oil sprayer, front-wing machine guns, retractable rear bullet-proof shield, tyre-slashing hub cap blades, homer tracking screen, and front passenger ejector seat. Homing devices for tracking vehicles / people Main Title Music ï¿½Goldfingerï¿½ sung by Shirley Bassey End Title Music ï¿½Goldfingerï¿½ sung by Shirley Bassey Music Score Harry Saltzman & Albert R.

Broccoli Film Locations Esso oil refinery, Stanwell, England (opening sequence) Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA Stoke Park House, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England Switzerland Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted $726 million Scheme: The detonation of a nuclear device inside Fort Knox Girls: Jill Masterson, Pussy Galore Allies: Felix Leiter Locations Goldfinger: MI 6 London, Auric Enterprises Switzerland, South America drug operation, Fountainblau Hotel Florida, Fort Knox Kentucky, Auric Stud Kentucky. James Bond: Sean Connery Villain: Auric Goldfinger, Gert Frï¿½be Goldfinger is a strange millionaire with an obsession for gold. His plan is to blow a nuclear bomb in Ft. Knox to devalue US gold and increase the worth of his own. Jill Masterson: Shirley Eaton Goldpainted Best Wishes Shirley Eaton (played Jill Masterson in Goldfinger 1964) to James Bond 007 Museum in Nybro Sweden and Gunnar James Bond Schï¿½fer many thanks...

Henchmen: Oddjob, Harold Sakata Henchmen in the Goldfinger, Oddjob is a mute Korean working for Auric Goldfinger. Using his steel-rimmed hat as a weapon, Harold Sakata was a Hawaiin-born Olympic wrestling silver medalist in London 1948. Girls: Honor Blackman, Pussy Galore Jill Masterson: Shirley Eaton Welsh actor Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (Born: September 12, 1914 - Died: December 19, 1999) featured as gadget master Major Geoffrey Boothroyd ï¿½ alias ï¿½Qï¿½ in 17 of the 19 James Bond movies , spanning an incredible 36 years. Tilly Masterson: Tania Mallett Shirley Eaton as victim Jill Masterson in the 1964 Bond movie Goldfinger In the original, arch-villain Goldfingerï¿½s accomplice Jill Masterson, played by London-born actress Shirley Eaton, is killed after betraying her boss and sleeping with 007. She is asphyxiated after her entire body was covered in gold paint.

Goldfingerï¿½s accomplice Jill Masterson, played by London-born actress Shirley Eaton, is killed after betraying her boss and sleeping with 007. She is asphyxiated after her entire body was covered in gold paint. Colonel Smithers Played by Richard Vernon Smithers is the distinguished representative of the Bank of England who informs Bond and M about the dangers of Goldfinger's international gold-smuggling operations. As bait for Goldfinger, Smithers lends 007 a rare gold bar which originated from a lost hoard of Nazi bullion. Felix Leiter Played by Cec Linder Leiter reappears in Goldfinger, again as Bond's close friend from the CIA. Leiter helps Bond locate and come in contact with Auric Goldfinger The Laser in Goldfinger Summary: Special agent 007 has just come face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time. And now he'll have to outwit and outgun this powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox - and obliterate the world's economy!

Review: Over the years, Goldfinger has become known as the gold standard (sorry, couldnï¿½t resist) for Bond movies: so much so that the ï¿½Bond formulaï¿½ is essentially based around this movie. It all started with the pretitle sequence, which was a mini-movie in itself. Bond quickly disrobes his wetsuit to reveal a perfectly-pressed white tuxedo underneath, quickly establishing his as a debonair and suave secret agent. He even gets his first pun in before the title sequence with ï¿½shocking, positively shocking.ï¿½ The quintessential Bond movie, of course, had the quintessential Bond theme, as Shirley Bassey belts out what is, arguably, the most recognizable theme song in the entire series: except of course for the Bond tune itselfï¿½but that doesnï¿½t count. As the movie continues, Bond continues to be on his A-game both in terms of the ladies (he hooks up with Dink and Jill before he even leaves the Miami hotel) and in regards to action. Also introduced early on, through the striking visual of his shadow against the wall, is Oddjob: yet another icon in the Bond movie canon.

Without saying a word, Oddjob is both menacing and evil; he could send a shiver down the spine with a mere look. That said, his apparent invincibility to everything except raw electricity was a bit absurd and takes away from his character. For example, thereï¿½s no way Bond could punch his face with a solid gold bar and not have Oddjob feel a thing. Moving along the villain arena we come to he of ï¿½No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!ï¿½ fame: Auric Goldfinger. Due partly to the aforementioned line as well as his voice (even though it was dubbed) and his plot to detonate a nuclear device inside Fort Knox, Goldfinger is one of the most memorable villains of the series. Ken Adams also helped the cause by doing a brilliant job with the sets: especially those related to Auric. His den with rotating pool table and metal window shades truly accentuated Goldfingerï¿½s villainy. Bad guys aside, Goldfinger features Pussy Galore, the woman with the most sexual name of the entire series.

In addition, she was the first of the ï¿½bad girlsï¿½ who would sleep with Bond and all of a sudden convert to the side of good. Heck, according to Ian Flemingï¿½s original source material, Bond even made her turn straight. The movie also featured Jill Masterson laying naked, dead and covered with gold paint: an image so iconic that it landed her on the cover of Life magazine. The movie also gave us our first look at Q's laboratory with the gags in the background as well as his gadgets for Bond. The crowning glory of Q's lab was the introduction of the Aston Martin DB5 which has become synonymous with Bond. Finally, Connery has achieved the perfect Bond character and along with a great script, supporting cast, and score, he made the best performance of his Bond career. If I had to choose one main negative point about the movie, despite all the wonderful characters, Conneryï¿½s spot-on performance and classic sets, it would be that Goldfinger is, at its core, an unbelievable movie.

The plot is far-fetched and, though still more realistic than future Goldfinger clones including Moonraker 1979 and A View To A Kill 1985 , was the starting point for the absurdity of later movies. As the film that all other Bond movies would be judged on, it would have been nice to see it more rooted in reality like Form Russia With Love . Still, the movie is classic Bond and not a bad choice for the gold standard of the series. Jill Masterson: Shirley Eaton Bond's first visit to America First Bond movie not to deal with SPECTRE First appearance of Red China First time Bond goes to the physical lab known as Q Branch First use of the Aston Martin DB5 First mention of another Double-O agent (008) First sexually suggestive female name (Pussy Galore) First time a henchperson defected (Pussy Galore) First time a villain's voice was dubbed over in the American release (Goldfinger's was the first and Largo's would be the second in Thunderball ) First extravagant ending fight sequence with hundreds of actors fighting First "formula Bond" format movie Tilly Masterson is the first person to drive a Ford Mustang in ANY movie, not just Bond.

First mention of Newfoundland First Bond film to be nominated for an Oscar First use of the bulletproof vest anywhere. Featured in Q's lab, this invention was years ahead of its time and long before police officers used them. First time a laser is used in any movie First time the Bond girl was a lesbian (Bond turned Pussy Galore straight when he "appealed to her maternal instinct) First time that Ford Motor Company provided vehicles for use in a Bond film First time Bond does not use a PPK. Bond uses a Walther P-38 that he took off of Goldfinger's thugs after he stops the Aston-Martin. This is in the same sequence that Tilly Masterson is killed.

First time Bond mentions The Beatles First time a villain uses a golden gun (Scaramanga was the second) First time a Bond girl is killed First henchman that was a former Olympian (Harold Sakata) First henchman with a psychological disability (Oddjob was mute) First time that 007 is taken into police custody (M mentions this in his office after 007 was taken into custody of the Miami Beach P.D) First time 007 plays golf First time a Bond film was filmed at Stoke Poges Golf Course (the location was also used during the filming of Tomorrow Never Dies , but was based in the hotel complex) First mention of British United Airways The golf game is the first action sequence set in Great Britain (previously only set-up scenes were in England) First time a former member of the cast of The Avengers appears in a Bond film. Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) had appeared as Kathy Cale on the Avengers. First theme song sung by Shirley Bassey, who would later sing Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker 1979 .

First time Michael G Wilson makes a cameo First time the film was changed between the theatrical release and the home video release (the timer that stops on 007 seconds stopped on 003 seconds in the theatrical version) Gert Frobe's voice was dubbed by an English actor. Honor Blackman was actually a trained expert in Judo. Already pushing the lines of decency with Pussy Galore's name, Bond's introduction to her was changed. In the original script the line was: Pussy: I'm Pussy Galore. Bond: I know, but what's your name? However, the scene was later changed to bond's current response of "I must be dreaming!" When Goldfinger was first released, the public knew nothing of lasers. The movie intrigued audiences everywhere. The producers got over 300 letters from fans wondering why they were allowed to film in Fort Knox while the president wasn't even allowed in. A 24 hour guard had to be placed by the Fort Knox set so people couldn't steal the fake gold bars. Harold Sakata sustained serious injuries from the electrocution of his character because he refused to let go until the director called cut, despite his pain.

Harold Sakata represented the USA in the 1948 Olympics as a weightlifter. Over 75 percent of all moviegoers worldwide have seen Goldfinger at least once. Gert Frobe was a child prodigy at the violin. The famous ending where the bomb is defused in 007 seconds was actually changed. In the original version that ran all over Europe and the rest of the world, the bomb was defused with 003 seconds left; hence Bond's line "Three more ticks and Mr. Goldfinger would've hit the jackpot." When the film came to America, the producers thought it would have a stronger impact to change it to 007 seconds, but the line remained. When the plane is plummeting at the end of the movie, you can actually see the strings used to film the sequence with a miniature plane. CIA director Allen Dulles assigned a research team to determine the feasibility the homing system in the Aston Martin. The "golden girl" idea was based on a real Swiss fashion model who painted herself and died of asphyxiation. In Fleming's novel, Pussy Galore was a lesbian. This was changed in the movie to appease the social climate of the era.

Sean Connery walked off the set for a couple days and had to be asked to return after Harold Sakata's Oddjob delivered a full contact karate chop during the first take of the "golden girl" scene in the hotel in Miami. The Falcon pick-up truck Oddjob drives has whitewall tires on it when it takes the crushed Lincoln, but it has blackwall tires when it reached its destination. Felix Leiter does appear in the Goldfinger book, however, it is only for a short time and does not play a prominent role until the very end, unlike the film. Auric Goldfinger had the first golden gun, years before Francisco Scaramanga. It was not in the Ian Fleming book , but in the movie in the scene where U.S. soldiers raid the Fort Knox vault, you can clearly see Auric Goldfinger pull put a golden revolver and shoot several people. Pussy Galore was the name of Ian Fleming's pet octopus. Coincidentally, the Bond girl was named after one of Ian Fleming's pets, and later served as a theme for Octopussy 1983 . Two Aston Martin DB5s were built for production, one of which had no gadgets.

Main Title Music James Bond Retrospective: Goldfinger (1964) James Bond Retrospective: Goldfinger (1964) We take a retrospective look at the most famous 007 movie of all time... Flipboard As James Bond prepares for his 23rd official outing in Skyfall and to mark next years 50th Anniversary of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time I have been tasked to take a retrospective look at the films that turned author Ian Flemings creation into one of the most recognised and iconic characters in film history. When the second James Bond film From Russia With Love managed to top the box-office receipts of Dr. No , producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman knew they had struck gold with the character. Looking to expand the appeal of the next film to a more worldwide audience, in particular the American market, they chose Flemings seventh Bond novel Goldfinger as the third film in their series. With much of the story taking place in the American states of Kentucky and Florida as well as Switzerland and the UK it was felt that the film would have a suitably international feel as well as an all-important appeal to US audiences.

Director Terence Young, who had successfully set the style and tone of the first two Bond films, had expected to return to the directors chair for Goldfinger but after a pay dispute which saw him denied a percentage of the films profits he decided to pursue alternative projects instead. In his place the producers hired Guy Hamilton, an old Royal Navy friend of Ian Fleming who had worked as an assistant director on classic films such as The African Queen and The Third Man before becoming a director in his own right in the early 1950s. Filming began in January 1964 working from a script by Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum, writer of both previous films. Hamilton assembled a crew of Bond regulars including returning production designer Ken Adam, who had provided Dr. No with its most distinctive look. With a budget equal to that of both previous films combined ($3million), Broccoli and Saltzman hoped they could repeat their successes with Bonds biggest, most ambitious adventure to date. James Bond With two Bond films under his belt and fresh from starring in Alfred Hitchcocks latest film Marnie, Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond with even more charm and charisma than ever before.

He inhabits the character with a suave sense of cool and for the first time really seems to be completely comfortable in the role. He does however reveal Bond to be slightly out of touch with the zeitgeist by declaring that The Beatles should only be listened to with earmuffs. Bond remains the tough guy not afraid to use a woman as a shield to block an incoming assailant but still manages to show a tender side that makes his constant success with women all the more believable. The one-liners are also a lot sharper than in previous outings, where before most missed the mark, the hit rate here is much more on the money with many classic lines of dialogue. Pre-Credits & Theme Song Writer Paul Dehn proposed an idea that the film should open with an action scene that holds little or no relevance to the rest of the film almost as if we are thrown back into Bonds world as he completes a mission. The resulting pre-credits scene sets a formula that would continue throughout the series. Beginning with Bond emerging from the sea wearing a wetsuit and a fake seagull on his head, only Connery could pull this look off.

Bond goes on to set a series of explosives before removing his wetsuit to reveal he is wearing a pristine white tuxedo underneath. The scene is pure Bond and is played very much with a tongue in cheek attitude without crossing the line into parody. Classic Line (After knocking a lamp into a bathtub to electrocute a bad guy) James Bond: Shocking! Positively shocking. The opening theme song performed by Shirley Bassey was written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse with music provided by Bond stalwart John Barry. Barrys musical backing proved to be so powerful that Bassey signed on to record the theme song before even reading the lyrics. Only reaching number 21 in the UK charts the song has gone on to be one of the most famous of all Bond themes and Bassey would return to provide a further two Bond themes, an achievement unequalled in the series. The Movie British secret agent James Bond is assigned to Miami along with his opposite number in the CIA, Felix Leiter (Cec Linder, replacing Dr. Nos Jack Lord), to investigate a potential multi-million dollar gold smuggling ring.

Bond learns that European millionaire Auric Goldfinger is masterminding a scheme to stockpile gold before revealing an elaborate plan, entitled Operation Grand Slam that will see Americas gold reserve held at Fort Knox irradiated by an atomic bomb exploded in the depository thus inflating the value of Goldfingers own supplies. The series really hits its stride with Goldfinger. It is the first James Bond film to really forge its own identity as something different to others in the spy genre. It sets the formula for a basic structure that can be applied to nearly all the Bond films that follow. This formula has been analysed many times but I think the most succinct interpretation of the formula can be found in Italian author Umberto Ecos 1981 book The Role Of The Reader. Here Eco presents the Bond formula as a nine stage structure, each step occurs in every film, not necessarily in the same order but all nine will always be present.

Ecos Bond formula is as follows: A- M gives a task to Bond B- The villain appears to Bond C- Bond gives the first check to the villain or vice versa D- The girl shows herself to Bond E- Bond possesses the girl or begins her seduction F- Villain captures Bond then the girl or at the same time G- The villain tortures Bond and sometimes the girl H- Bond beats the villain, killing him or his representatives I- Bond possesses the girl whom he then loses, she either leaves him or she is killed Ecos formula is a variant on the classic idea of the heros journey and when applied to Bond, the familiarity of the formula can most likely be attributed to the franchises continued international success. With the return of Ken Adam as production designer the film is graced with larger than life sets and intricately considered details. Working in collaboration with art designer Peter Murton, yellow and gold were used throughout the film in the design of props and sets; from items of clothing to Goldfingers Rolls-Royce the colours are dominant in almost every scene. The sets raise the bar on Adams previous work on Dr.

No, they are more subtle but no less fantastical, from Goldfingers billiard room with revolving table to reveal an elaborate model of Fort Knox to illustrate his plan to the interior of the Fort Knox set, designed completely from Adams imagination at Pinewood Studios after officials refused any of the films production crew access to the real Fort Knox vaults. During the films post-production Saltzman took the decision to slightly alter the ending of the films large scale battle at Fort Knox. As Bond locates and attempts to defuse the atomic bomb, the originally shot sequence saw him deactivate the bomb with the timer reading 003, leading to the line; Three more clicks and Mr Goldfinger wouldve hit the jackpot. The sequence was changed so that the number on the dial read 007, Bonds ID number, but the line of dialogue remained the same resulting in one of the series most well known goofs. Goldfinger is the quintessential Bond film. It takes all the elements used to establish the character in the first two films and embellishes the details to provide the prototype for all interpretations of the character that follow.

The film literally has everything we have now come to expect from a Bond film, a memorable villain, beautiful women, exotic locations, gadgets aplenty, imaginative action sequences, quotable dialogue and a fast paced plotline. The Bond Villain The producers initially wanted to hire Orson Welles for the role of Auric Goldfinger but much like the character his motivation was purely for financial gain with demands much higher than they were willing to pay. They eventually settled on lesser known German actor Gert Frobe who the producers had recently seen play a child molester in It Happened In Broad Daylight (German title: Es Geschah Am Hellichten Tag). Coincidentally Frobe had also appeared in the 1962 World War II film The Longest Day which also included Sean Connery among the huge international cast. Classic Line James Bond: Do you expect me to talk? Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die. Frobe is superb as the archetypal Bond villain. Where Connery sets the standard for all Bonds to follow, Frobe does the same for Bonds foes.

His Goldfinger is a multi-faceted character, charming yet menacing, with a plausible plan that is ruthless and ultimately selfish, as any world domination plan should be. Frobe has many of the films best lines and even though his dialogue was actually overdubbed to hide the fact he was struggling with the English language you can hardly tell. Broccoli and Saltzman were so taken by the actor that he was offered the role of Baron Bomburst in the pairs film adaptation of another Ian Fleming novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968. From Russia With Love set another Bond standard by featuring several memorable henchmen acting on behalf of the main villain Blofeld. Goldfinger follows this trend by introducing another right-hand man in the shape of Oddjob, Goldfingers man-servant played by Harold Sakata, an Olympic silver medal winning weightlifter. The larger than life, heavyweight mute with a lethal bowler hat is one of the Bond series most recognisable and unforgettable henchmen.

The Bond Girl Despite only appearing in the film for around five minutes, the most iconic and enduring image of the classic Bond girl has to be that of Shirley Eaton lying dead in a hotel bedroom having been painted from head to toe in suffocating gold paint. Having previously appeared in a number of British films including several Carry On films, Eaton actually managed to overshadow the main leading lady of the film by appearing in the majority of the publicity material for the film as well as having the honour of being the first Bond girl to grace the cover of Life magazine. Classic Line Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore. James Bond: I must be dreaming. Beginning another Bond trend of women having names infused with sexual innuendo and double entendre, the main Bond girl in Goldfinger goes by the name Pussy Galore. The films producers contemplated changing the name to Kitty Galore after fears that the censors might be offended but director Hamilton fought to keep the name Pussy in tact. However any mention of the name was removed from all promotional material and the character was only referred to as Miss Galore in trailers.

To fill the decidedly kinky boots of Pussy Galore the producers looked to an already well established star of British TV, Honor Blackman, who had spent the past two years as Cathy Gale alongside Patrick Macnees John Steed in cult favourite The Avengers. As Goldfingers personal pilot and leader of his all-female flying circus, Blackman brings a steely edge and strength of character to the role making her the perfect foil to Bond. Able to resist his charms for the most part before Bond practically forces himself on her in a rather dubious scene in a hay loft. Even though her name is actually better suited to a Carry On film, Pussy Galore is probably the best remembered Bond girl with the possible exception of Ursula Andress Honey Rider from Dr. No. This recognition is well deserved as Blackman clearly has a ball building on her fame from The Avengers and increasing her notoriety by becoming one of the most interesting and unforgettable Bond girls in the series. Gadgets Goldfinger marks the beginning of Bonds association with gadget-laden vehicles.

The silver Aston Martin DB5 that features in the film is probably one of the most recognisable film cars of all time and Bonds relationship with the British car manufacturer has endured to this day. Classic Line James Bond: Ejector seat? Youre joking! Q: I never joke about my work 007. Production designer Ken Adam and engineer John Stears set to work transforming a standard DB5 adding revolving number plates, Browning machine guns behind the indicators, smoke and oil dispensers from the back lights, a rear bullet proof shield, wheel-destroying scythes from the centre of the wheel hubs and of course, the ejector seat. While most of the gadgets were operational to some extent the wheel hub spikes and ejector seat were actually a clever combination of practical and special effect shots. Made for around $45,000, Saltzman balked at the idea of the car being used for the high-speed driving and stunt sequences so an identical car without the additional features was provided.

As one of the most famous and iconic cars ever to grace the silver screen, the car went on to be forever immortalised by diecast toy car maker Corgi with one of the first of many pieces of film merchandise to be inspired by the James Bond series. James Bond Will Return.. Goldfinger proved to be a critical and commercial success, recouping its $3million budget in just two weeks. One of the first true blockbusters it went on to take over $124million worldwide breaking a number of records including the fastest grossing film of all time. In addition to the merchandising deal with Corgi, the film spawned a huge range of film tie-ins including clothes, action figures, board games and lunch boxes all increasing the popularity of the James Bond brand. The only problem now facing Broccoli and Saltzman was how do you follow this level of success.. Goldfinger | Dustin Dye Dustin Dye Goldfinger 5 of 5 stars If you’ve only seen one Bond film, chances are it was Goldfinger. Goldfinger was the film that established the Bond formula, and perhaps used the formula best. It is the quintessential Bond film.

Later films in the series would try to mimic the formula and energy of Goldfinger, with varying degrees of success. This is the first of many Bond films to begin with a set piece, known as the pre-title sequence, that’s unrelated to the main plot of the film. This is a device to introduce Bond as the hero. Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai may have been the first movie to use this device, but it has been used extensively since, such as Dirty Harry. Bond approaches a warehouse by water, using a duck decoy as a disguise for his breathing apparatus, blows up said warehouse to halt the selling of “heroin flavored bananas to finance revolutions,” peels off his wetsuit to reveal a perfectly pressed tux, then pulls out a flower from somewhere I don’t want to know to insert into the suit’s lapel. Following the opening credits, accompanied by the series’s most memorable theme song, Bond’s off to Miami where he meets his friend Felix Leiter to receive his mission. Bond is to keep tabs on a Eurovillian named Auric Goldfinger. Cec Linder takes over the role of Leiter from Jack Lord, who played the CIA officer in Dr. No .

While Lord was born the year before Linder, Linder was in fact much older. Left: Jack Lord in DR. NO (1962), age 41. Right: Cec Linder in GOLDFINGER (1964), age 43. Bond watches as Goldfinger hustles a game of Go Fish by the hotel pool. He immediately figures Goldfinger has a lookout. He locates and confronts the beautiful lookout, introducing himself as, “Bond. James Bond.” Even wearing whatever the hell this is, Connery is still badass: Bond trails Goldfinger across exotic locations like Switzerland and Kentucky. After a car chase in Switzerland causes 007 to crash his iconic Aston Martin DB5 when he confuses the car’s reflection in the mirror for an oncoming vehicle (WTF?!), he’s captured and strapped to a table beneath a giant frickin’ laser beam.

Here we get the most often quoted dialogue exchange in the series, where Bond asks Goldfinger, ‘Do you expect me to talk?’ And Goldfinger responds, ‘No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!’ Bond convinces Goldfinger not to slice him in half genitals-first with a laser beam, and instead 007 finds himself on a plane piloted by a woman named Pussy Galore across the Atlantic. He’s thrown into a prison beneath Goldfinger’s Kentucky ranch, where the villain has called together a convention of ‘30s style hoodlums to explain his plan to break into Fort Knox. Bond manages to break out of his cell just in time to hear the scheme, which seems to be conveniently explained for his benefit. (This is what’s known in the movie biz as a “plot device.”) One of the hoods decides he doesn’t want anything to do with the plan. Goldfinger’s Korean chauffeur, Oddjob (played by Japanese-American Olympic silver medalist Harold Sakata), shoots the gangster in the backseat of his car, then takes the car to the dump to be crushed into a cube with the body still inside. Goldfinger then kills all the other gangsters anyway.

So why did he go through his elaborate demonstration, which he’d clearly put a lot of work into, in the first place? Why kill the other gangster separately when he planned to kill them all? Bond informs Goldfinger why his plan to knockoff Fort Knox is unfeasible (this was actually the original plot in Ian Fleming’s novel). Goldfinger tells Bond his plan isn’t to steal the gold from Fort Knox, but to blow it up with a nuclear weapon he obtained from the Red Chinese, thereby causing the value of his own gold to skyrocket, while playing on Americans’ fears of the Yellow Peril in the 1960s. This all culminates in a showdown between Bond, Oddjob, Goldfinger, the Chinese army and the U.S. Army at Fort Knox. Bond scrambles to disarm the atomic bomb, saving the day with exactly 0:07 seconds to spare! Following the more serious spy thriller From Russia with Love , Goldfinger sets the tone for the series, balancing camp, style and amazing set pieces. It’s the most representative film in the franchise and establishes James Bond as a cultural icon.

Leave a Reply Simon Russell Beale may not get to be a Bond villain - Telegraph Simon Russell Beale may not get to be a Bond villain Sam Mendes likely to cast actor as a 'good guy' in Bond 23 next year Image 1 of 5 Simon Russell Beale is set to appear in the new James Bond film in 2012 Photo: REBECCA REID Richard Kiel who was the villain Jaws with the scary steel teeth Image 1 of 5 Bond villain Oddjob, the man with the deadly bowler hat, was played by Olympic silver-medallist weight-lifter Harold Sakata Image 1 of 5 Actor Christopher Lee who played Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun poses with the famous prop Photo: ANDREW SHAW Bond's nemesis Blofeld, here played by Donald Pleasence By Tim Walker 12:44PM GMT 12 Jan 2011 Simon Russell Beale may not get his wish to play a 'baddie' in the new James Bond film in 2012.

The 50-year-old award-winning actor was mooted for a part in the next Bond film and it had been assumed that Sam Mendes, the director, was considering casting him as the baddie. Beale said last month: "Of course! Every actor wants to be in Bond. I’d love to be a baddie. I saw Sam just before Christmas and dropped a hint – and he just looked wearily at me.” But the distinguished stage actor is in fact in detailed talks to appear as one of the good guys. "It's too early to confirm anything, but the part he is up for is not a baddie," confirms his spokesman. "There was this assumption he was up to play such a character, but it was never the case." Related Articles James Bond closer to returning 08 Oct 2010 He first worked with Mendes who directed him at the RSC as Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, as Richard III and as a striking Ariel in The Tempest.

Mendes also directed him as Iago in Othello at the Royal National Theatre and in Mendes' farewell productions at the Donmar Warehouse, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, in which he played the title role, and Twelfth Night, in which Beale played Malvolio. In the spring of 2009 Beale and Mendes collaborated on The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard, in which Russell Beale played Leontes and Lopakhin respectively, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, later transferring to the Old Vic Theatre. Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan have been confirmed as the writers of the screenplay of the new James Bond film and will be working on a villain to rival some of the greats from the past 22 Bond movies.

THE FIVE MOST NOTORIOUS BOND VILLAINS Ernst Stavro Blofeld (From Russia with Love, 1963, and Thunderball, 1965, and You Only Live Twice, 1967, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969, and Diamonds Are Forever, 1971, and For Your Eyes Only, 1981) Chief of the global criminal organsation SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld is 007’s nemesis, and the main villain of the Bond franchise. He has been played by four different actors (Eric Pohlmann, Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas, and Charles Gray), and has become, with his white Persian cat, collarless grey jacket, and swivelling armchair, one of the most parodied villains in film history. Jaws (The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977, and Moonraker, 1979) The 7'2" giant with the mouth of steel, who survived being crushed beneath an ancient Egyptian monument, being thrown from speeding trains and high clifftops. Dr. No (Dr.

No, 1962) The ultimate mad scientist was Bond’s first on-screen antagonist.. A nuclear physicist with powerful metallic claws for hands. Francisco Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974) A secretive hitman who was the most expensive assassin in the world, needing only a single bullet to complete each job, he liked to kill his targets with a gold-plated single-shot pistol which could be disassembled into a pen, a lighter, cuff links and a cigarette case for easy disguise. Played with nonchalent arrogance by Christopher Lee, a cousin of Ian Fleming. Oddjob (Goldfinger, 1964) Oddjob was the beefy bodyguard of Auric Goldfinger, who combined genuine menace, physical strength, and a unique killing method in the form of a flying razor-rimmed bowler hat. Oddjob was played by Olympic silver-medallist weight-lifter Harold Sakata.

Start your free 30 day Amazon Prime trial» Harold Sakata - Biography - IMDb Harold Sakata Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trivia (4) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) The most famous henchman of the entire James Bond series of spy thrillers, Harold Sakata will forever be remembered as the villainous "Odd Job" in the ultimate Bond film, Goldfinger (1964), with his lethal martial arts and steel-brimmed bowler hat. He was born Toshiyuki Sakata in Hawaii, of Japanese descent. From a young age he was a proficient sportsman who developed a keen interest in wrestling, and won a Silver Medal in weightlifting for the light heavyweight division of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Sakata then went on to become a professional wrestler, and appeared under the name "Tosh Togo" where he became a "bad guy" wrestler who allegedly threw salt in his opponent's eyes. Although he had no acting background, Sakata came to the attention of Bond producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R.

Broccoli when they were casting for the key role of the mute Asian villain "Odd Job". Sakata's steely gaze and powerful physique made him perfect for the role as Auric Goldfinger's ( Gert Fröbe ) deadly bodyguard, and the fight sequence between Sean Connery and Sakata in a glittering, gold-filled Fort Knox remains one of the highlights of the Bond series. Unfortunately, Sakata never broke free of the "Odd Job" stereotype, and his remaining film appearances saw him cast as military figures, muscle-bound brutes or further mute bodyguards. He died from cancer in 1982, but had assured himself a very unique place in modern film history. - IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44 Trivia (4) Won a silver medal in light-heavyweight weight-lifting at the 1948 summer Olympics. He pursued a successful career as a professional wrestler before moving into acting. Weighed 284 lbs at the time of Goldfinger (1964). Sakata apparently liked his role in the movie Goldfinger (1964) so much that he took "Oddjob" as an informal middle name.

In the rehearsals at the Golf Club where he is to throw his hat at the statue, with the head subsequently falling off, after three attempts the special effects crew could not "arrange" the head to fall off correctly. On the fourth take he told the special effects team to just stand still - then he threw his iron-brimmed hat at the statues neck and successful severed the head at the neck on the "first" attempt - to the amazement of all!. See also Harold Sakata - James Bond Actors Liver Cancer Summary Harold Sakata was an actor and weightlifter most famous for his stunning performance as Oddjob in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Biography Harold Sakata was born in Hawaii as Toshiyuki Sakata, changing his name to Harold when he moved to a more central part of America. In his late teens, Harold was lean and somewhat underweight, so he started lifting weights to build himself up. He became a professional weightlifter, and at the age of 28 won a silver medal for the United States in the Summer Olympics Light-Heavyweight event, lifting an astounding 380 pounds.

His weightlifting background led him into professional wrestling where he became a champion in several competitions under the name Tosh Togo. Prior to playing Oddjob in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger, Harold had absolutely no acting experience. But his strong build and muscular appearance won him the non speaking role of Oddjob, Goldfinger's personal bodyguard. After this legendary performance, Harold starred in many other films, sometimes playing characters similar to Oddjob. Milton Reid, a professional wrestler who had played Dr. No's bodyguard in the first James Bond film Dr. No , had initially challenged Sakata to a wrestling match, with the idea that the winner would play Oddjob. The producers however, didn't want to reuse actors, so they chose Harold without the match ever taking place. Roles in James Bond Movies Goldfinger (1964) as Oddjob Sometimes credited as Harold Odd Job Sakata and Tosh Togo During the shooting of Goldfinger, Harold weighed 284 pounds Goldfinger Remind Me Goldfinger By the time Sean Connery started work on Goldfinger in early 1964, he was already growing weary of playing James Bond. The huge success of Dr.

No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963) had made Connery realize that everything he did would now be compared to his work as 007 -- not a situation any actor wants to be in. At the same time, Connery felt he was not being paid enough relative to the films' successes, and he successfully negotiated a contract for three more Bond films that gave him a share of the profits and allowed him the freedom to continue making other movies. As it turned out, Goldfinger, with a budget equal to that of the first two Bond films combined ($3 million), would become an even bigger hit than either -- a true sensation at the worldwide box office ($125 million), a major pop-cultural phenomenon, and a key influence on action films forever after. In fact, it's probably fair to say that Goldfinger is one of the most influential movies ever made, spawning imitators that persist up to the present day. The picture is often cited as the best of the Bonds and the one that set the mold for every Bond film to follow. The first point is debatable.

Some fans do prefer Goldfinger, while others find it silly and absurd and favor the grit of From Russia with Love or the breathtaking action and romance of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Casino Royale (2006). The second point, that it set the mold for future Bond films, is undeniable. While Goldfinger isn't hugely different from the first two entries, it does cement into place elements that would remain with the series. For the first time, a pre-credits scene involves Bond, and it involves him in an action sequence that has nothing to do with the story to follow. For the first time, a theme song is sung over the credits. For the first time, Q is referred to as Q and is allowed to interact with Bond in a comic manner. More importantly, Bond and the film as a whole are given much more humor to work with. Bond has some light moments in Dr. No and From Russia with Love, but nothing like anything in Goldfinger. This was seen by producers Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as key to keeping the series going strongly. The opening sequence of Goldfinger establishes the new tone right off the bat.

As Bond swims up to a Caribbean island, knocks out a guard, blows up a heroin plant, removes his black outfit to reveal a tuxedo underneath, romances a sultry flamenco dancer, and then viciously fights a bad guy before killing him in an equal-parts brutal and comic manner, the movie efficiently shows us that what is to come will be an effortless blend of tension, humor, romance, superb action and dry wit. The opening sequence moves back and forth between playfulness and deadly seriousness several times, perfectly establishing a balance that will be deliciously maintained most of the time. Sean Connery offered this take on the evolution of 007: "In Dr. No, the character was established. By the end of the second film the audience had thoroughly got hold of him. After that, the interesting thing was to surprise people who thought they knew how he was going to react to a situation. You'd play the reality, play the humor, have a bit of playful repartee with the audience and do something unexpected." (Michael Freedland, Sean Connery: A Biography) Goldfinger also features the most charismatic villain up to that point, and he fittingly has an outrageous scheme in mind.

Code-named "Operation Grand Slam," Auric Goldfinger's plan is to blow up an atomic bomb inside Fort Knox, thereby contaminating all the gold therein for 58 years and driving up the value of Goldfinger's own holdings tenfold. Along the way, Goldfinger and Bond engage in a memorable game of golf, and in even more memorable wars of words as they confront each other several times -- most famously in a sequence where Bond has been captured and is strapped spread-eagle to a gold table as an industrial laser slowly moves its beam toward Bond's privates. "Do you expect me to talk?" asks 007. "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" is Goldfinger's reply, perhaps the best-known dialogue exchange of any Bond movie. Aside from the first-rate dialogue, Goldfinger also contains more iconic "Bond" moments than any other entry: the Aston-Martin with its ejector seat and other gadgets, the laser beam sequence, the Bond girls Pussy Galore and Jill Masterson, the henchman Oddjob with his razor-lined bowler, the death-by-gold-paint scene, and the climax inside Fort Knox are all on anyone's list of enduring images from the franchise.

If one had to select a single Bond film to show someone what the series and the character were all about, Goldfinger would be the one. Published in 1959, Goldfinger was Ian Fleming's seventh James Bond novel. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who had been the primary writing force behind Dr. No and From Russia with Love, was again retained to adapt the novel into a screenplay. He would remain with the Bond series off and on for another 25 years, writing most of the entries culminating with Licence to Kill (1989). While Maibaum had already proven that he could retain the essence of Fleming's Bond for the screen, it was both fitting and somewhat ironic that he should also be the one to start slowly moving the screen Bond away from Fleming's conception, primarily by the addition of so much humor, although again it should be noted that this was a decision ordered mainly by Broccoli and Saltzman. The director of the first two films, Terence Young, performed some pre-production work on Goldfinger but was replaced with Guy Hamilton after asking for what the producers deemed too much money.

Shooting began in Miami without Connery, who was still finishing up Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), which in turn he had done immediately following another film, Woman of Straw (1964). By the time Goldfinger wrapped, Connery had been working 14 months without a break. Connery joined the Goldfinger unit once it moved back to Pinewood Studios, where the Miami hotel was recreated on a soundstage for scenes involving Connery, Gert Frobe and Shirley Eaton. It was during this early Pinewood shoot that author Ian Fleming visited the set. Unfortunately he would not live to see the finished movie, as he died about a month before Goldfinger opened. Incidentally, the characters of Bond and Goldfinger do appear in some actual Miami location shots, but with the use of body doubles. Doubles were used elsewhere in the film, including the golf sequence. Gert Frobe was not a golfer and so a double was used for the shots of him actually hitting the balls. More notably, Frobe's voice was entirely dubbed by an actor named Michael Collins. Apparently few people knew until he arrived on set that Frobe could not speak English very well.

Actress Shirley Eaton's voice was dubbed, too, which was hardly unusual for a Bond girl. The same thing had happened to Ursula Andress, Daniela Bianchi and Eunice Gayson in the first two films, and it would happen again to Claudine Auger in Thunderball (1965). Doubles were even used for long shots of the pilots of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, made up of several attractive blondes. For the flying scenes, male pilots wore blonde wigs! At least Honor Blackman got to use her own voice. The blonde beauty came to the part of Pussy Galore direct from the huge television hit The Avengers, in which she was replaced by Diana Rigg -- soon to become a memorable Bond girl herself. Pussy Galore was written by Fleming as a clear lesbian, a trait presented more subtly, though still unmistakably, in the film. Gert Frobe had enjoyed a long career as a character actor in German films, though he also appeared in some American productions such as Orson Welles' Mr.

Arkadin (1955) and the WWII epic The Longest Day (1962), in which Sean Connery also had a role, though the two did not share the screen. Jack Lord was asked to reprise the character of CIA agent Felix Leiter, which he had played so well in Dr. No, but he declined. This started a pattern of different actors playing the character, none ever as charismatically as Lord. In Goldfinger, Leiter is blandly portrayed by Cec Linder. Two actors have played Leiter twice: David Hedison in Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill, and Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Harold Sakata, who plays Oddjob, was a Hawaiian wrestler and an Olympic silver medalist weightlifter (in the 1948 Olympics) whom director Hamilton discovered while watching a wrestling match on TV. In his stunning Goldfinger death scene, Sakata burned his hand somewhat severely while holding it in place for the shot.

Ever the trouper, he didn't let go until Hamilton yelled "cut." Two tiny Bond-girl roles here are notable for fans: Margaret Nolan, who plays Dink the masseuse in the Miami hotel scene, was also the model used for the opening-credits sequence. And Nadja Regin, appearing as the flamenco dancer in the pre-credits scene, had previously played Kerim's girl in From Russia with Love. Shirley Eaton, who amazingly enough is in Goldfinger for less than five minutes, leaves an indelible impression due to her amazingly sexy chemistry with Connery and also to her character's spectacular death. Her death pose, with her body covered in gold paint as she lies facedown on a bed, remains one of the signature images from the entire series. The scene was taken from the novel, but Fleming himself may well have lifted the idea from the 1946 Val Lewton horror film Bedlam, in which a character played by Glenn Vernon dies of asphyxiation from being covered in gold paint. Bedlam was shot in black-and-white, so it lacks the striking color visual of a gold-covered body, but the death itself is much more vividly and horrifyingly depicted in that earlier film.

Guy Hamilton later said it was tricky to shoot and edit Eaton's gold-covered body in Goldfinger because he had to please two different censors -- in the U.S. and the U.K. "The American censor was absolutely constipated about sex," recalled Hamilton. "The British censor couldn't have cared less about that [but was] panic-stricken about violence. So one was doing a fairly fine juggling act." Overall, Hamilton had enormous resources at his disposal, and he smartly shot production designer Ken Adam's creations in such a way as to let the amazing sets do a lot of the talking. The opening storage tank, the laser room, and the interior of Fort Knox are all feathers in the career cap of Adam, who designed several other Bond films as well. Even the opening cantina set is evocatively designed, in that case with a minimum of fuss. The filmmakers were not allowed to even see the inside of the real Fort Knox, much less film there, and it's a good thing because there was no way the real thing could look anything as dazzling as the set Ken Adam imagined and constructed.

In reality, gold can't be piled higher than 2.5 feet due to its weight; here we see it piled 40 feet in row upon row of gleaming brilliance. For Fort Knox's exterior, Adam built a full-scale exact replica after he and other crew members flew over the real thing. Location work was done at an Army base near the actual Fort Knox, with U.S. soldiers playing themselves, falling over "dead" as Goldfinger's poison gas is released by Pussy Galore's pilots. Though several groups of soldiers are seen falling, it's always the same few dozen people who were simply moved to different locations for the different shots. These scenes were shot less than a month before Goldfinger opened in the fall of 1964. As is still common today with movie blockbusters, Goldfinger had a release date set long in advance, and the filmmakers had no choice but to rush to meet it. John Barry's score is especially impressive when one realizes he had such little time to write it.

A final note about Bond's gadgets in this film: Hamilton said that the iconic scene in which Q explains the Aston Martin's gadgets to 007 was originally not in the script, and that it was producer Cubby Broccoli who insisted on including it. Broccoli rightly claimed that it would create great audience anticipation and pay off handsomely when the gadgets were deployed. Hamilton, meanwhile, was the one who suggested that Bond should act bored by Q's explanations and that Q should get annoyed with Bond's treatment of the gadgets. Their comic back-and-forth would become a highlight of almost every ensuing Bond film. The best Bond gadgets are the ones that are plausible, such as the ones here. By the time of Die Another Day's (2002) "invisible" car, things had gone too far over the top. Producers: Albert R.

Broccoli, Harry Saltzman Director: Guy Hamilton Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn; Ian Fleming (novel, uncredited) Cinematography: Ted Moore Music: John Barry Film Editing: Peter Hunt Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), Gert Frobe (Auric Goldfinger), Shirley Eaton (Jill Masterson), Tania Mallet (Tilly Masterson), Harold Sakata (Oddjob), Bernard Lee ('M'), Martin Benson (Solo), Cec Linder (Felix Leiter), Austin Willis (Simmons), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Bill Nagy (Midnight), Michael Mellinger (Kisch), Peter Cranwell (Johnny), Nadja Regin (Bonita), Richard Vernon (Smithers), Burt Kwouk (Mr. Ling), Desmond Llewelyn ('Q'). C-112m. Letterboxed.

Question: Which Olympic silver medallist played Oddjob in Goldfinger?
Answer: Harold Sakata